October 22, 2026

The cheapest token is the one you never use

October 22, 2026/ The Financial Revolutionist

Icon Solutions’ Tamsin Crossland examines how banks’ technology choices shape the cost of scaling AI.

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The Financial Revolutionist is weekly newsletter and blog focused on the torrid pace of financial innovation. Today, thanks to the exponential rate of technological change, explosion in global trade and new regulations ushered in by the Great Financial Crisis, a new financial revolution is under way. In this battle, virtually every aspect of the greater financial services sector is subject to rigorous challenge. With the Financial Revolutionist, we are aspiring to create a boots-on-the-ground and highly opinionated assessment of important financial innovation developments in the past week.

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